GEORGETOWN, Guyana - An American-born woman who has served as a lawmaker, cabinet minister, and president of this South American nation is not running for office for the first time in 60 years.
Janet Jagan, 85, is too frail to face another political campaign and has asked not to appear on ballots for the governing People's Progressive Party in Aug. 28 general elections, presidential spokesman Robert Persaud said Friday.
"You can't go on forever. The woman is 80-something and asked not to be on the list (but) she is fully behind us," Persaud said.
Jagan, who was born in Chicago and has lived in Guyana since 1943, was elected president in December 1997, succeeding …
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